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Definition of Ephippiorhynchus
1. Noun. Saddlebills.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Ciconiidae, Family Ciconiidae
Member holonyms: Ephippiorhynchus Senegalensis, Jabiru, Saddlebill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ephippiorhynchus
Literary usage of Ephippiorhynchus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1902)
"It was breeding in April near Fashoda.—RMH] 142. Ephippiorhynchus SENEGALENSIS.
Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis (Shaw) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvi. p. ..."
2. Liberia by Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf (1906)
"... making a most striking object against the background of dark green riverside
forest. Like the other white herons, 1 Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis. ..."
3. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1898)
"Godwin-Austen Coll. Hume Coll. Gates Coll. India Museum. W. Westgarth, Esq.
Salvin-Godman Coll. [P.]. Purchased. 7. Ephippiorhynchus. Purchased. ..."
4. A Naturalist on Lake Victoria: With an Account of Sleeping Sickness and the by Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter (1920)
"... the fine saddle-billed stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis), which I once,
and only once, saw on the shore of Buvu, in the Sesse Archipelago, in 1912. ..."
5. Trekking the Great Thirst: Travel and Sport in the Kalahari Desert by Arnold Wienholt Hodson, Amy E. Nellen (1912)
"Conspicuous amongst these rapidly scurrying forms stalked the giant bill
storks (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis),^' birds, presenting striking contrasts of ..."
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